Life may not always be a bed of roses. All of us are aware of this fact. There are numerous times in life when we have to face disappointments. These quotes and sayings surely do inspire and help us to look forward and enjoy the new pathways coming our way. These quotes also lend a different perspective to life, which makes moving forward not a very difficult task.I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.

I hear you have abolitionists here. We have a few in Illinois, but we shot one the other day.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.

My policy is to have no policy.